Things I need for marking

[nmg]

Rubber stamps reading:

• Answer the question
• Answer the question I asked this year, not the one I asked last year
• Irrelevant
• Waffling
• Irrelevant and waffling
• Reproduced without understanding
• Did you attend my lectures?
• Did you read any textbooks?

Ah well. Only another 150 scripts to wade through.

Comments

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

He's clearly too good to have to actually study, and is one of a growing number of undergrads who have an innate knowledge of their subject that surpasses yours.

He's already paid for his degree after all; therefore everything prior to graduation is a formality where beer>assignments.

Where I used to work, the pre-conception amongst students was that it's not actually possible to fail a degree, because it makes the university look bad. So you only need to study if you want to get a 1st for some crazy reason.

[makyo.livejournal.com]

He's clearly too good to have to actually study
His homework marks don't support this hypothesis, but I'm constantly amazed by the levels of denial some students are capable of, so it's possible he does think this.

He's already paid for his degree after all
He's paying for the opportunity to try to get a degree, which is subtly different - although I'm not entirely convinced he quite understands this detail either.

The thing is, I'm generally a fairly sympathetic person, and if an otherwise hardworking student hands something in a day late once, then I'm fairly likely to bend the rules and just let it go. But if the student keeps doing it, and can't even be bothered to put a modicum of effort into sounding convincing, or keeping a straight face, then he's getting zero for that assignment.

[lionsphil.livejournal.com]

Believe me, several of my---ugh---"peers" did think in exactly that way.